How is my child doing - parental understanding of their children when a parent has cancer.

To explore the difficulties parents face when understanding their children's reactions to parental cancer and parents' reactions to their children's perceived needs. Qualitative interviews with cancer patients and their partners. Eleven patients and seven partners took part.

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire is a usable way to address mental health at well-child visits in general practice - a qualitative study of feasibility.

Background: Mental health problems is frequent among children and psychopathology in early childhood seems to predict mental disorders in adulthood. All Danish children are offered seven free well-child visits at their General Practitioner (GP) during their first 5 years of life. GPs have a unique position to address mental health problems at the well-child visits, but they lack a systematic approach when assessing children's mental health.

Using a modified nominal group technique to develop general practice.

Background: There are few areas of health care where sufficient research-based evidence exists and primary health care is no exception. In the absence of such evidence, the development of assisted support must be based on the opinions and experience of professionals with knowledge of the relevant field. The purpose of this research project is to explore how the nominal group technique can be used to establish consensus by analysing how it supported the development of structured, knowledge-based, electronic health records for preventive child health examinations in Danish general practice.

Motor function tests for 0-2-year-old children - a systematic review.

Introduction: There is no evidence on how motor function is best evaluated in children in a low-risk setting. The method used in the Danish Preventive Child Health Examination Programme (DPCHEP) in general practise has not been validated. The objective of this review was to identify existing motor function tests for 0-2-year-old children that were validated for use in the background population and which are suitable for use in the DPCHEP.

International variation in programmes for assessment of children's neurodevelopment in the community: Understanding disparate approaches to evaluation of motor, social, emotional, behavioural and cognitive function.

Background: Few areas of medicine demonstrate such international divergence as child development screening and surveillance. Many countries have nationally mandated surveillance policies, but the content of programmes and mechanisms for delivery vary enormously. The cost of programmes is substantial but no economic evaluations have been carried out.

The Child Health System in Denmark: Current Problems and Successes.

In Denmark, child primary care is taken care of by general practitioners who have 6 months of pediatric training as part of their specialty training and, therefore, are qualified to work as gatekeepers for the secondary health care at the hospitals. As new, more expensive, drugs are increasingly prescribed, corresponding expenses pose serious threats to the economy at 18 pediatric departments. We will highlight the new developments in pediatric education: skills training and training of clinical reasoning.

Maternal pain influences her evaluation of recurrent pain in 6- to 11-year-old healthy children.

Aim: Children with recurrent pain rely on their parents to acknowledge it. We compared pain reported by healthy children and their mothers, to evaluate their agreement, and also looked at the effect of maternal health on children's pain.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey in Danish public schools.

The Danish preventive child health examination should expand on mental health and the well-being of the family.

Introduction: In Denmark, around one in six children has significant somatic, psychological or social health problems, often in combination. The preventive child health examinations have a high participation rate; and they produce significant findings, predominantly concerning the child's physical health. The aim of this study was to explore how the child's physical, cognitive and psychosocial health are examined and assessed at the health examinations of children aged 0-5 years in general practice.

GPs' strategies in exploring the preschool child's wellbeing in the paediatric consultation.

Background: Although General Practitioners (GPs) are uniquely placed to identify children with emotional, social, and behavioural problems, they succeed in identifying only a small number of them. The aim of this article is to explore the strategies, methods, and tools employed by GPs in the assessment of the preschool child's emotional, mental, social, and behavioural health. We look at how GPs address parental care of the child in general and in situations where GPs have a particular awareness of the child.

Screening of vision and hearing in primary school children.

Background: Hearing and sight are two basic senses in terms of education and profession. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 15 million children worldwide suffer from uncorrected refractive disorders and another 275 million people are handicapped due to compromised hearing. In Indonesia, screening primary school children for hearing and vision is not part of the free public health-care system.

"This is not normal ... "--signs that make the GP question the child's well-being.

Background: The GPs are uniquely placed to recognise children with mental problems and emotional stress that influence their well-being.

Objectives: The aim of the article is with focus on the GP's daily practice, to describe how the GP separates the healthy normal child's developmental crises from children with problems that need special attention and treatment.

Methods: A qualitative research design is used based on material from focus-group discussions and individual interviews with 28 GPs from a Danish county.